Spurs sack manager, but fans attack the wrong person on Twitter

An American woman has gained fans on Twitter after she responded to abusive
tweets intended for former Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas with musical
theatre lyrics

Andre Villas-BoasPhoto: GETTY IMAGES

By Roisin O'Connor

5:49PM GMT 16 Dec 2013

An American woman sharing a similar Twitter handle to sacked Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas has been inundated with abusive tweets.

Villas-Boas was sacked just 24 hours after a humiliating 5-0 defeat by Liverpool at White Hart Lane on Sunday.

Ashley Van Buren, who lives in New York, goes by the Twitter handle @avb which has been mistaken for the former manager's official Twitter account. Villas-Boas, who managed Tottenham Hotspur for 18 months, is commonly referred to as AVB.

Despite the Twitter abuse lasting almost 24 hours, Ms Van Buren appears to have seen the funny side of the situation. Rather than pointing out the football fans’ mistake, she has responded to each one with a lyric from musical theatre.

“I am NOT the U.K. football coach, so if you send me a death threat meant for him, I'm gonna tweet you a musical theater lyric,” she wrote.